The Consequences Of Imperialism

Since early ages, Imperialism has been used as a tool for powerful nations to take over weaker and less developed nations in order to take advantage of their resources, labor and their land. In Imperialism, for the more powerful and wealthy country that was being the initiator of the imperialism process, it would seem like a great idea, as they would grow richer in resources, wealth and even have the advantage of exploiting the locals for cheap labor. The reality for the weaker nation would be much different, as they were looked upon as weaker and inferior, which would lead to them being exploited causing many wars due to the superiority that the whites felt, as stated in the following document “Most of these wars have been caused by attacks
They ended up treating locals as trash, as inferiors, people that couldn’t be able to take charge of their land, when they forget that before they were even there, the locals lived in these areas for hundreds of years. They bullied the people to a point where they were branded by everyone was weaker and inferior, branding that was seen throughout years after, even after the white man left, leaving the people with no sense of leadership as they were striped from it. All of this stated in the following document “Colonialism’s greatest misdeed was to have tried to strip us of our responsibility in conducting our own affairs and convince us that our civilization was nothing less than savagery, thus giving us complexes which led to our being branded as irresponsible and lacking in self-confidence.” As it shows, their superiority feeling was a key to the ruining of the
They were left with nothing, as they “failed to provide the African with sufficient [preparation]. None of the newly independent countries had enough skilled African administrators to run their own . . . [or] enough African technicians to keep the public utilities working, and no country had an electorate that knew what independence was all about.” (Document 4) They were left with absolutely nothing, after the white man gathered and exploited what was there, they left, leaving the locals with no preparation for their future, with no sense of a government, no sense of and economy, nothing. Such is a reason why even today, a lot of African countries are LEDCS. This even lead to the African People protecting themselves by condemning colonialism and imperialism based on the premises that “…fundamental human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of movement, freedom of worship, freedom to live a full and abundant life are denied to Africans through the activities of Imperialists.” (Document 3) The effect of the white men’s abuse in Africa was so excessive to the point that even today, Africans are still facing the consequences with and extremely large impact, seen in their economies, governments and overall functioning of such